林郁峰 小一下 (2015/12/15 12:07):As the house owner John struggled to keep his children calm, he shouted for someone to help his family. This was no action movie. Like many people in his village, John was caught up in the real-life horror of the devastating tsunami that hit this area. After the attack, the landscape that spread out before people’s eyes was surreal. The neighborhood was now a wasteland. The water had receded, and sand, mud and debris covered everything. John’s house was torn, with walls collapsed, ceiling crumpled, beams and columns scattering around. And there, in the back of the house and amid the debris, was the old tree, bent but not broken!
However, nature is a force to be reckoned with. In the weeks and months that followed, new leaves began to sprout from the old tree's stump. The neighborhood has slowly come back to life as well. New houses have been built where old ones were destroyed, John and his family plan to build a permanent home in the mountains, in case a future tsunami would hit them again.

3F

林郁峰 小一下 (2015/12/15 12:11):As the house owner John struggled to keep his children calm, he shouted for someone to help his family. This was no action movie. Like many people in his village, John was caught up in the real-life horror of the devastating tsunami that hit this area. After the attack, the landscape that spread out before people’s eyes was surreal. The neighborhood was now a wasteland. The water had receded, and sand, mud and debris covered everything. John’s house was torn, with walls collapsed, ceiling crumpled, beams and columns scattering around. And there, in the back of the house and amid the debris, was the old tree, bent but not broken!
However, nature is a force to be reckoned with. In the weeks and months that followed, new leaves began to sprout from the old tree's stump. The neighborhood has slowly come back to life as well. New houses have been built where old ones were destroyed, John and his family plan to build a permanent home in the mountains, in case a future tsunami would hit them again.

4F

林郁峰 小一下 (2015/12/15 12:11):As the house owner John struggled to keep his children calm, he shouted for someone to help his family. This was no action movie. Like many people in his village, John was caught up in the real-life horror of the devastating tsunami that hit this area. After the attack, the landscape that spread out before people’s eyes was surreal. The neighborhood was now a wasteland. The water had receded, and sand, mud and debris covered everything. John’s house was torn, with walls collapsed, ceiling crumpled, beams and columns scattering around. And there, in the back of the house and amid the debris, was the old tree, bent but not broken!
However, nature is a force to be reckoned with. In the weeks and months that followed, new leaves began to sprout from the old tree's stump. The neighborhood has slowly come back to life as well. New houses have been built where old ones were destroyed, John and his family plan to build a permanent home in the mountains, in case a future tsunami would hit them again.